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American who has enjoyed my liberty and freedom. Retired. Mother, Grandmother , love my friends,former small business owner, loves horses, dogs, cats, Politics activist— bearing witness- doing what I can

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dteater.bsky.social @dteater.bsky.social · Jul 17

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The Strike Card — The General Strike

By Signing a Strike Card is one of most important steps you can take in ensuring the success of The General Strike. By doing so you will receive important emails and SMS updates. The Strike card is ...

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 8 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

I am in Southern Arizona
I am so proud of my Senators
Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego for confronting Speaker Johnson

SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA

Johnson's lame excuse due to his cowardly fear
#EPSTEINFILES
Call him 202 224 3121

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 12h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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dteater.bsky.social @dteater.bsky.social · 2h

You’re damn right.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3h

How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 20h

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Lynn Attison @iamtherealjoan.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, this past week, agents went into an apartment house. They came in the night. Bashed down doors. Had people strip naked, even the little children. Then they were zipped tied and thrown into moving trucks! Watch this pompous dick-of-a-man act like she is wrong.
SHE'S NOT WRONG!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. SCHIFF: You’ve refused to answer questions about ethics, the Qatari plane, the Epstein files, Tom Homan’s alleged bribery, political prosecutions, military authorization…

Bondi: *tries interrupting*

Schiff: Excuse me. This is an oversight hearing. We demand answers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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dteater.bsky.social @dteater.bsky.social · 2h

👇👇👇👇‼️‼️‼️

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 6h

Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 13h

Let's focus on Steven Millers slip up on CNN.
Who the hell does he think he is?

Plenary?Plenary authority?

No Steven Miller, Wrong again!!

No! You do not plenary authority to harm the American Public. It is cruel and illegal. You do not have the executive power to overthrow our own government

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi."

The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3h

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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dteater.bsky.social @dteater.bsky.social · 8h

Me either.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 4d

We can't settle for Republicans’ promise of later negotiations. Because every time this Administration says something, they go back on their word.

If Republicans need Democratic votes, they need to keep health care premiums from skyrocketing for the American people.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.

A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.

We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.

Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and Velázquez.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d

Last week, I wrote to Secretary Rubio urging protection of Americans on the Sumud Flotilla. Since then, Israel has detained dozens of activists, including Americans, for trying to feed starving Gazans.

This is unacceptable. Secretary Rubio, you must negotiate their safe return home.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 2d

Flashing red light: a top federal prosecutor REJECTED pressure to indict NY AG Letitia James

Career DOJ lawyers aren’t giving to Trump’s revenge campaign

Now what will Bondi & Halligan do?

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Top prosecutor is rejecting Trump pressure to charge New York AG

A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James.

www.msnbc.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 1d

The overreach of the Jim Crow regime in response to peaceful lawful protest brought it down

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 1d

So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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